Ukraine's General Staff confirmed strikes on Russian EW systems, depots and a MiG-29. Targets included a Peresvet-M complex in Luhansk, a Starlink satellite-jamming station in occupied Crimea, fuel and ammunition depots in Berdiansk, logistics depots in Prymorsk and a MiG-29 at Millerovo.
Colonel Emil Ishkulov has reportedly been appointed commander of Ukraine's 11th Army Corps, responsible for defending the Sloviansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration, Yurii Butusov reports. Ishkulov commanded the 80th Air Assault Brigade and served as deputy commander of the 7th Rapid Response Corps.
Ukraine's SIGNUM batallion says it is intensifying strikes on Russian logistics in the occupied south, with railway infrastructure and military trucks among its targets. The unit says it deliberately avoids grain carriers. SIGNUM also reports that Russian forces are increasingly disguising military cargo as civilian transport.
A Russian drone struck a suburban passenger train in Ukraine's Mykolaiv region, damaging several carriages, according to Ukrzaliznytsia. No one was injured as passengers were warned of the threat and evacuated in time.
Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces confirmed a Deep Strike on the Astrakhan Gas Processing Plant overnight on August 24. The Gazprom facility can process up to 12 billion m³ of gas and about 7.3 million tons of gas condensate annually, making it a major gas-processing complex.
❗️Ukraine's General Staff confirmed strikes on the Afipsky oil refinery in Krasnodar Krai and two U-272 gas separation units at the Astrakhan gas processing plant. A fire was confirmed at Afipsky, which has a design capacity of 6.25 million tons of oil per year. The Astrakhan plant can process up to 12 billion m³ of gas annually and produces technical sulfur used in explosives. Damage is still bei...
Several fires are still burning at the Amur Gas Chemical Complex in Russia's Amur region after explosions at the site. There is still no confirmed cause for the explosions or the fires that followed.
at the Amur Gas Chemical Complex in Russia's Amur region
❗️Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissed reports of possible mobilization in Russia as "information hoaxes," according to TASS. Peskov claimed Ukrainian authorities are deliberately spreading the reports in an attempt to "ideologically destabilize" the situation inside Russia.
Satellite images obtained by Radio Svoboda show Ozon warehouses in Enem, Adygea; Tyube, Dagestan; and Nevinnomyssk in Russia's Stavropol region after yesterday's attacks. Unlike the other sites, the Nevinnomyssk facility did not experience a large-scale fire despite the attack.
Satellite imagery published by DniproOsint indicates a technical pipeline at Russia's Nizhnekamskneftekhim plant was damaged during a recent attack. Imagery from August 23 shows a destroyed pipeline section and repair equipment at the site.
Russia will not accept agreements with Ukraine that it considers harmful to its security, Moscow's UN envoy Vasily Nebenzya said. He claimed attempts to impose a freeze on the war under the guise of a ceasefire are "doomed to failure." Nebenzya also complained at the UN Security Council about sanctions targeting the Russian animated series "Masha and the Bear."
❗️A pyrolysis unit is burning at the Amur Gas Chemical Complex in Russia's Amur region. The unit is a key processing stage where hydrocarbon feedstock is converted into ethylene and propylene and has a design capacity of 2.7 million tons per year. The complex, a SIBUR-Sinopec joint venture, is still in the commissioning phase ahead of industrial operation. The cause of the fire has not been report...
❗️Ukrainian drones struck the Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery in Russia's Rostov region overnight. The extent of the damage remains unclear and is still being assessed, but no large fires were confirmed following the attack.
❗️UK PM Andy Burnham plans to join European leaders in New York in September to lobby Donald Trump for more Patriot missiles for Ukraine. Burnham said he was "really confident" the shortage was "fixable" and urged allies to dig into their interceptor stocks. Ukraine has received significantly fewer Patriot missiles this year as supplies were diverted to the Middle East, while Russia has stepped up...